Denis-Didier Rousseau

Denis-Didier Rousseau is a paleoclimatologist at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (École polytechnique, ENS, UPMC, CNRS). His research uses loess and other wind-blown (eolian) deposits as archives of past atmospheric circulation, to understand the highly variable, alternately dusty and non-dusty climate of the last glacial cycle and to test the ability of climate models to reproduce strong wind events. His Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia took place in 2013-14.